you're missintepreting what i said. I'm saying that a script which would have the potential to fail unintuitively from `set -eup pipefail` probably shouldn't b

you're missintepreting what i said. I'm saying that a script which would have the potential to fail unintuitively from `set -eup pipefail` probably shouldn't be written in shell and most definitely shouldn't continue to execute once an unexpected state has occured. You're right that there are a lot of cases in which non-zero exitcodes are the expected behaviour. But if you're accepting these commands with non-zero exitcodes then you're already doing error handling by verifying the output of the commands (at least hopefully), which was the original criteria from the OP for writing the script in another language.